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Mother’s Milk Stored For Long Periods Found To Have Less Antioxidant

...ts when frozen or refrigerated, antioxidant levels fell in breast milk the longer it was stored and the colder the temperature at which it was stored. Researchers say this study is of special importance to premature newborns, since they are born with lowered antioxidant capacity and are susceptible to hi...

Plant sterols found to be effective in Type 2 diabetic patients

...en in non-diabetic participants. LDL cholesterol fell by more than a quarter (27%) for diabetic people who received the sterol spread. For those without diabetes, LDL dropped 15%. HDL ("good") cholesterol levels were not affected. The results showed that plant sterols are [effective] in lowering LDL c...

Lung Cancer Deaths Declining In Men But Not Women In European Countries

...e in young men. In Poland, for example, tar yields fell by more than half between 1984 and 1999, and other changes to cigarettes have been made. Medindia Editors Note: It is not unusual to see more women smoking then men in bars and discos in Europe. Smoking among nurses also is vary high in Europe. Cli...

Oral Sex may carry AIDS related Cancer Virus

...e proportion of men reporting unprotected anal sex fell from more than half in the mid-80s to 11% in 1993, according to one study the researchers analyzed. On the other hand, unprotected oral sex remained common throughout the study periods, ranging from 60% to 90%."The inference," the researchers write,...

Cut meat to cut blood pressure

... of vegans and the fish eaters and vegetarians who fell in the middle. And they found that these differences appeared to be related more to body weight rather than food choices. In conclusion, the researchers listed the benefits of a vegetarian diet which contained lesser saturated fat when compared to m...

When it comes to health, all chocolates not the same.

...-chocolate group. The lower, or diastolic, reading fell an average of almost two points. In 1998, a Harvard study of nearly 8,000 of its male graduates determined that eating the equivalent of few bars of chocolate a month lowered the risk of death by 36 percent as compared to abstainers. In the latest ...

Influence of Celebrities on Breast Cancer Awareness

...ast cancer and after her surgery, lumpectomy rates fell for six months, probably because women felt that the president's wife got the best medical advice. New York’s Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was dropped out of senate race against Hillary Clinton after he was diagnosed of prostate cancer. The American Canc...

Merck to pay $ 253.5 million to Vioxx victim family

...hid those risks from patients. Merck’s stock price fell almost 8%, although Texas rules on punitive damages will automatically lower the verdict to $26.1 million and Merck has already said it plans to appeal the case. Texas case means for the thousand of additional Vioxx suits that Merck will face. The ...

Role Of Estrogen In Breast-Cancer

...hormone therapy. While numbers of N-CoR proteins fell to 20 percent of normal, the level of N-CoR's messenger RNA went untouched. The reduction of N-CoR followed an up regulation of the ubiquitin ligase Siah2, an enzyme that targets certain proteins for degradation. This "secondary effect" may have br...

Risk of Thyroid cancer is increased after Childhood Irradiation of Neck region

...20-29 Gy with an odds ration of 9.8. The risk then fell to a low level at doses above 30 Gy. The study shows that widely held belief that lower doses of radiation reduces the late carcinogenic effects does not necessarily apply to the development of thyroid cancer. This point should make us give more thou...

Abbott’s Laboratories R&D Capabilities Questione

Abbott Laboratories shares fell by 1.3% to close at $43.80 following U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejection of its new drug Xinlay. Increased number of scientists and analysts question the efficiency of Abbott’s R&D // , after the rejection of its drug. The drug that i...

Taking Music Lesson To Reduce Stress

...auses, all the indicators of physiological arousal fell below those registered before the participants started to listen to any of the tracks. This effect occurred, irrespective of the musical style or preferences of the listener, but was stronger among the musicians, who are trained to synchronize thei...

HIV Mortality declining in India due to Generic Antiretroviral therapy drugs

...ed in India during 2000 and the price of HIV drugs fell from $778 per month to $100 per month, and eventually declined even further to just $33 per month in 2003. Before 2000, due to high cost of ART drugs, more than five million HIV-infected people living in India have been unable to obtain treatment due...

Early Growth Patterns Can Predict Heart Disease

...kely to develop heart problems as those whose BMIs fell from over 17 at age 2 to under 16 at age 11. For the study, published in the October 27 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine , researchers from Finland conducted a review of the histories of 357 men and 87 women who went on to develop coron...

Sharp Increase In Morning-After Pill Sales Among British Women

...sing the pill who obtained it from their physician fell from 41 % in 2003-04 to 33 % in 2004-05. There was also a considerable decrease in the prescription from a walk-in centre or minor-injuries from 11 % to 3 % while the percentage getting it from a family planning clinic remained constant at 21 %. Th...

CPHA Offers HIV Information Packages To Canadian Football League Teams

...to create a culture where HIV positive players can fell free to disclose their HIV status without fear of being discriminated against or shunned by their teammates, the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) is offering information packages to all Canadian Football League (CFL) teams//. The idea is t...

US Reviews Risks Of Tamiflu After 12 Children Die

...cine. In the second case, a 14-year-old apparently fell from the ninth floor of his apartment building in February 2005. In a statement issued last night, the EMEA said it had asked Roche to provide a cumulative safety review of all available data on serious psychiatric disorders, including all case repo...

British Grandmother has timely bypass surgery in India

...th wait for a bifemoral bypass and since Christmas fell within that time, it would have to be January 2005. "I had the heart scan in January and assumed that within weeks I would be having the operation."But, instead, I got a letter in March saying my operation wouldn't be for another three to six months...

AIDS Numbers Continue To Rise : WHO

... In Zimbabwe, the HIV rates among pregnant women fell from 26 percent in 1990s to 21 percent in 2003. The report also adds that because of the expansion of voluntary HIV testing and counseling, HIV cases in Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Dominican Republic and Haiti were on the decline an gave cause for op...

Indian Doctor Suspended For Negligence In UK

... for failing to act when 31-year-old Sean Phillips fell ill after a routine knee operation at the Southampton General Hospital. He was convicted of manslaughter and given an 18-month prison sentence suspended for two years following Phillips's death in June 2000. The doctor, who is now a clinical patho...

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